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by Mistletoe 8 days ago
> Everywhere East of the Rockies, they don't even have droughts

What?

https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/

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Pardon my mistake. How do you even manage to have a drought when it rains all year long? Sorry, that just doesn't make any sense. You can drive around anywhere on the East Coast and everything everywhere is green all summer. I've seen plenty of places where people have 2-acre lawns that have no irrigation whatsoever, it just stays green. How can this be and still have a "drought"?

Maybe "drought" doesn't mean what I think it means. In this case, I amend my comment to say "There's clearly lots of water there" instead of "drought."

Seriously... I get really annoyed with people who state opinions as facts...

Like the water situation east of the rockies has been pretty bad... It just ain't the desert that you get over in California or Arizona